Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-24

| nave lOunu IN my own experience tha
God so arranged it that the greatest oppOr
tunitiesof usefulness that have been opened
before me were opened by enemies. And
when, years ago, they conspired against
Gle, that opened all Christendom to me a:
field in which 30 preach the Gospel. Sc
you may harness your antagonists 10 your
best interests and compel them to draw
you on to better work and higher chaEac
ter Suppose, instead OF waiting until six
minutes past five o'clock this evening
when the sun will set, you transact thlt
glorious work of forgiveness before mer,
ridisn.
Again: We ought not to let the sun 20
down on our wrath, because we will sleeu
better If we are at peace with every body.
Insomnia is getting to be one of the most
prevalent of disorders How few people
people retire at ten o'clock at night and
sleep clear through to six in the morning
To relieve this disorder all narcotics, and
sedatiyes, and chloral, and bromide of DO
tassium, and cocaine, and intoxicants are
used, but nothing is more important than
a quiet sSirit if we would win somnolence
How is a man going to sleep when he is in
mind pursuing an enemy? With
WHAT NERVOUS TwITCH
he will start out OF a dream! That new
plan for c0rnering his foe will keep him
wide awake while the clock strikes eleven,
twelve. one, two, three, four. give you
an unfailing prescription for wakefulness
spend the evening hours rehearsiDg your
wrongs and the best way of avenging them.
Hold convention of friends on this sub.
ject in your parlor or Office at eight and
nine O'Clock. Close the evening by
writing bitter letter expressing your sen,
timents. Take from the desk or pigeon.
hole the papers in the case to refresh your
mind with your evening" meanness. Then
lie down and wait for the coming of the
day, and it will come before sleep comes,
or your sleep will be worried quiescence,
and, if you take the precautiOn to lie Hat
on your hack, frighttul nightmare. Why
Why not put bound TO your animosity?
Why let yOur foes come into the sane
titles Oi your dOrmitOry? Why
let those Slanderers who have
already torn your reputation to pieces or
injured your business, bend over your
midnight pillow and drive from yOu one
of the greatest blessings that God can offer
sweet, refreshing, all inyigorating sleep.
Why not fence out your enemies by the
golden bars OF the sunset? Why not stand
behind the barricade of evening cloud and
say to them: Thus far aud no farther. "
Many q man and many woman is having
the health of body "a well AZ the health OF
soul eaten away by maleyOlent spirit.
have in time Of religious awakening had
persons, night after night, come into the
inquiry room and get no peace of soul.
After a while have bluntly asked her;
is there not some one against whom you
have hatred that you are not willing TO
give up?" After little confusion she has
slightly whispered, Yes" Then | said
to her: You will never find peace with
God az long as you retain that yirulence. "
A boy in Sparta having stole fox kept
him under coat and, though the fox was
GNAwING HIS NITAIs,
he submitted to it rather than expose his
misdeed Many a man with q smiling
face has under his jacket an animOsity
that is gnawing away the strength of his
body and the integrity of his soul Better
get rid of that hidden fox as soon as posi-
BILE. There are hundreds of domestic cir.
Cles where that which is the most needed is
the spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart,
and sisters apart, and parents and children
apart. Solomon says brother offended is
harder to he won than a strong city. Are
there not enough sacred memories of your
childhood to bring You together The
rabbins recount how that NebuChadnez-
zar's sou had such a spite against his
father that after he waS dead be had his
father burned TO ashes and then
put the ashes into four sacks and
tied them TO four eagles necks, which
flew away in opposite directions. And
there are now domestic antipatkies that
seem forever to have scattered all parental
memories to the four winds of heaven.
How far the eagles fly with that sacred
ashes The hour of sundown makes to
that family no practical suggestion.
Thomas Carlyle in his biography of Fred
eric the Great says the old King was told
by the confessor he must be at peace with
his enemies if he wanted TO enter heaven.
Then he said to his wife the Queen
Write to your brother after am dead
that forgive him. Rulotf, the confessor,
said: "Her Majesty had hetter write him
Immediately" mo- said the King,
latter am dead; that will be safer. -
So he let the sun Of his earthly ex istence
go down upon his wrath.
Again: We ought not TO allow the sun
set before forgiveness takes place, because
we might not live 10 see another day.
And what if we should be ushrred into
the presence Of our Maker with grudge
upon our soul? The majority Of people
depart this life ia the night Between
eleven O'Clock p. III. and three o'clock a. m.
there is something in the atmosphere
which
RELAXES THE GRIP
which the body has on the soul, and most
of people enter the next world through the
shadows OF this world. Perhaps God may
have arranged it in that way so as to make
the contrast the more glorious ] have
seen sunshiny days in this world that must
have been almost like the radiance OF
heaven. But az most people leave the
earth between sundown and sunrise they
quit this world at its darkest, and heaven,
always bright, will be the brighter for that
contrast. Ont of blackness into irrsdi.
alton. Shall we then leap over the roseate
hank OF sunset into the taTorite hunting
ground of disease aud death, carrying our
suimosities with US? Who would want 10
confront his God, against whom we have
all done meaner things than anybody has
ever done against US, carrying old gTudges:
How can we expect His forgiveness for the
greater when we are not willing to forgive
others the less Napoleon was encouraged tO
undertake the crossing of the Alps because
Charlemague had previously crossed them
And all this rugged path Of forgiveness:
bears the bleeding footsteps of Him who
conquered through suffering, and we ought
to be willing to follow. On the night OF
our departure from this life into the next
our one plea will have to be foE mercy,
and it will have 10 be offered in the pres
ence of Him who has said: "If you forgive
not men their trspasses neither will youI
heavenly Father forgive your tresp1sses. .
What a sorry plight if we stand there
hating this one, and hating that one, and
wishing that one damage, and wishing